The Character Strengths of Hill-tribe Undergraduate Students in the Mahamakut Buddhist University, Lanna Campus
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Analyze the Confrmatory Factor, Character Strengths and Hill-tribe undergraduate studentsAbstract
The Purpose of this research was to analyze the Confrmatory Factor Analysis of Character Strengths of Hill-tribe undergraduate students in the Mahamakut Buddhist University Lanna Campus. The samples were 637 year 1-4 undergraduates in the academic year of 2019. They were chosen by multiple random sampling. The instrument used in this research was a Character Strengths questionnaire for the students and which comprised 36 items with 6 rating scales. It had reliability of 0.907. Data were analyzed by Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The results found that; the model was ftted with empirical data and goodness-of-ft between the model and empirical data had Chi-square equal to 14.842 (P = 0.0954), Comparative Fit Index (CFI) = 0.997, R2 between 0.476 to 0.786, Factor Score Coefficients between 0.076 to 0.276. The weighted score of each component was 0.887, 0.782, 0.770, 0.770, 0.747 and 0.690 respectively
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